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Elizabeth Mora, director of Quebrada Ganado School, accompanied the students when they visited Punta Leona where they met ex macaw poacher Wilberth Vargas. (Courtesy of Yann Wauters)


Elizabeth Mora, director of Quebrada


Ganado School, accompanied the students when they visited Punta Leona where they met ex macaw poacher Wilberth Vargas. (Courtesy of Yann Wauters) The teacher associated the macaw theme with the contents of sciences (knowledge of the species and its natural history) and mathematics (data collection and the relation between dates and reproductive cycle stages). As part of the project, the children visited Punta Leona to meet the chicks they only knew through the cameras. There they were received by Vaughan’s collaborators, Wilberth Vargas, who previously stole chicks and now supports conservation efforts.


“We did not want the visit to consist


of only observing the chicks, so Wilbert - with all his experience - exposed the students to the environmental problems surrounding the macaws. And, yes, a chick was lowered very carefully from its nest so the students could observe it because one thing is seeing the chick on a screen and another is seeing it alive”, commented Solórzano. The last phase of the project, which finished last week, consisted of expressing all this knowledge in a creative way. For this, a drawing contest was organized and the children participated in elaborating a wall mural.


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